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Capturing Technological Opportunity Via Japan'S Star Scientists : Evidence from Japanese Firms' Biotech Patents and Products

Zucker, Lynne G.; Darby, Michael R. - 2021

Using detailed data on biotechnology in Japan, we find that identifiable collaborations" between particular university star scientists and firms have a large positive impact on firms'" research productivity, increasing the average firm's biotech patents by 34 percent development by 27 percent,...

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Social Construction of Trust to Protect Ideas and Data in Space Science and Geophysics

Zucker, Lynne G.; Darby, Michael R. - 2021

This paper applies a rational action/economic sociology approach to the central organizational theory question of whether action is embedded in pre-formed institutions that are relatively cheap in terms of time and energy, or to what extent action becomes embedded in newly constructed...

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Innovation, Competition and Welfare-Enhancing Monopoly

Darby, Michael R. - 2011

outcome. The totality of possible outcomes drives the national innovation system and the returns to a particular successful … required to motivate investment attempting to turn them into an innovation. The alternative to a valuable proprietary … innovation is not the same innovation freely available but the unchanged generic technology. Growth is concentrated in any …

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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property : Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy

Zucker, Lynne G. - 2014

Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...

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Star Scientists, Innovation and Regional and National Immigration

Zucker, Lynne G. - 2014

We follow the careers 1981-2004 of 5401 star scientists listed in ISI HighlyCitedSM as most highly cited by their peers. Their number in a US region or a top-25 science and technology (Samp;T) country significantly increases the probability of firm entry in the Samp;T field in which they are...

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